Had another foray into Wales last weekend and apart from my ATF over temperature light coming on a few times due to a combination of low oil level and a poorly installed Mocal oil cooler, see thread
http://www.landcruiserclub.net/foru...ox-Separate-Inter-Cooler-do-they-really-work-! we had a great weekend with great weather
I took over 400 photos and will try to do a trip report some time, but here's a selected few piccys for you till then
We left Essex around 11:00Hrs and so arrived in Wales with time to get some lanes done on our way to the first camp site
About the second or third lane in both Giles and myself became delayed and not able to go forwards or back even with all our lockers in! At this point it was just myself and Giles as we met up with Mog in his Disco later on. At first I was following Giles along the lane into the same bomb hole. When we realised that he had lost forward and backward momentum the plan was for me to back up take the route to the right of him and pull him out, but I also became delayed in both directions! So I winched Giles backwards, back down into the bomb hole till he could reverse out. He then drove around me and snatched me out
This was good fun
These sheep clearly thought we'd come to feed them and we were soon surrounded by 2/300 of them running towards us from a far
MOOOO
I just happened to be taking a photo at the start of this lane on the boarders of Hereford & Wales when this plan came from nowhere straight up the valley! It was so, so low I felt that if I'd reached up I could have stroked its belly!!! Anyone identify it?
Dinner on the first evening cooked on the new stove was butcher made beefburgers in buns with salad and Swiss cheese
View of camp Q1 from the tent Saturday morning
I'm not used to this when up in Wales, but it was so dry and warm that if you were truck 2 or 3 then you spent the day mostly driving through a dust cloud!!! It got so bad on some lanes that truck 1 and 2 had to run with fog lights so that the truck following could judge its distance to you!
Unbelievable engineering in this fence post
I took about a dozen photos of it from all angles
Dropped in on Iwen for a cupa to find him as many I'm sure frantically trying to get his truck ready for Lincomb
Thanks for the hospitality and interesting chat again Iwan, it's always a pleasure to see you
Saturdays camp site is about a mile up the lane on a plateau over looking the Snowdonia national park, but there were so many trees across the road it was impassable even though we had a chainsaw with us! There must have been a dozen trees down and a couple were proper monsters! We had to abort this camp site SP2 and head over to another we've used when the weathers really bad as it's very sheltered called BWS3
They've really got on with some logging in this area and it's to dam close to our BWS3 camp site! Looking at whats going on here BWS3 may not be so sheltered the next time we pass through.
As we drove pass the log piles we spied this beautiful creation by John Deere and had to pull over for close look
Camp site BWS3, fire lit and being accelerated by the prototype fire accelerator
Later on that night we heated some scrap steel and forged our own cutlery
New stove in use again and I'm loving it, so pleased it's not a petrol one
Dinners served
Faning the fire again with the accelerator PT1
View of camp site BWS3 from the tent Sunday morning
Mog chipped off around lunch time leaving myself and Giles to do a couple more hours of laning before we also called it a day and headed home
It often takes a catastrophic event to galvanise ones thoughts and for me it was Fiery's resent engine failure!
I have considered buying one, striping it down and repainting it with AirFix enamel paint 
Is that sad 
it will have to wait though as I need to order 5 new tyres, and an upper steering column shaft 
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